Radeon R7 250XE

olderReleased August, 2014

860 MHz

1 GB GDDR5

In order to support the ability for NVIDIA’s Kepler architecture to launch additional workloads a new Grid Management Unit was built that handles the incoming workloads from the host system as well as the algorithmically created workloads and balances accordingly.

texture mapping unitsBuilt into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes

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More broadly, Infoword is reporting that KB3004394 is also being blamed as the culprit behind certain issues affecting Windows Defender, Task Manager, and other software.

At this point this looks like the update only affects a small number of systems – Windows 8 is not affected, and even then most Windows 7 systems appear to be fine – but Microsoft has not taken any chances and has pulled the update.

With the Rogue USCs implementing a modern shader pipeline, there’s no innate weakness to the design that requires correction.

It should be noted that these numbers do not hold power consumption equal – higher utilization means transistors doing more work and burning energy more often – so real-world performance gains in power/heat limited scenarios would not be as great.